Whiskey Lullaby - Alison Krauss

We pick up in New YorkExplain City Try to find a man I never got to be But when I push down on the pavement I found the whole thing so much harder than it seemed The only deal I ever signed No devil drew a dotted line The stage was set, the words were mine I'm not complainin' Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey Water, water, water sleep Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey Wake up, shake it off, and repeat It's just a phase, it's not forever It's just a phase, but I still might have a ways to go Every night around this time My friends and I retreated like a race When I really start to break it down I wouldn't trust a girl who knew about this place Barkin' on with no one left Speak softly underneath my breath "Hey world, you ain't seen nothin' left" Great, now it's rainin' Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey Water, water, water sleep Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey Wake up, shake it off, and repeat It's just a phase, it's not forever It's just a phase, but I still might have a ways to go Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey Water, water, water sleep Dream somebody missed me Wake up, shake it off, and repeat And repeat and repeat after me Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey Water, water, water sleep Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey Cut me off and pour me in the street Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey Water, water, water sleep

Dancin' on the creek bank Blue eyes and auburn hair It was the best years of our life Didn't have a care Goin' 90 miles an hour Drunk in an old dirt road Two young ass kids Back where the dogwood flowers grow Then graduation came You was big city bound I was goin' nowhere fast So I just hung around By the next time I seen you Your love had turned cold So I guess you broke my heart Back where the dogwood flowers grow White on the bloom, that April moon It could have been forever, darlin', had we stayed together But you had to go, time don't slow It took me further from your home, back where the dogwood flowers grow So I took to drinkin' I guess you wouldn't recognize me My soul's been torn and twisted Like an old dogwood tree We used to talk about forever That was a million miles ago So I'll see it if I see Back where the dogwood flowers grow White on the bloom, that April moon You ain't dead set on leavin', when you miss the one you need Just getting real, he'll remember when You had that hand to hold, back where the dogwood flowers grow The dogwood flowers grow The dogwood flowers grow The dogwood flowers grow

Port Harcourt resident, they are not breathing fresh air My people make una dey see am Say Port Harcourt resident they no dey breathing fresh air So when you wake in the morning, you go cough You go cough black soothe The cars, if you see the way the cars them go dey black everywhere Curtain everywhere, na so everyday na him we dey mop glass, every day I fall too easy and I poured the whiskey But no be disability o, no be disability o I fall too easy and I poured the whiskey But no be disability o, no be disability o Some people bind and cast Some of them pray and fast I say see pastor don dey fat Shey na the thing God command Because of oil and gas My city so dark Pollution make the air turn black Every man have to stay on guard I fall to easy and I poured the whiskey But no be disability o, no be disability o I fall too easy and I poured the whiskey But no be disability o, no be disability o People dey sleep for their house, dem get no work Some they walk on the other side of town, dem dey for hold-up Some they pray for the traffic make dey hail you, make you show love And when e reach when to go back home you go go club I no say e no easy, my brother But still dey take am easy, my brother As long as you are breathing, my brother As long as you no sink inside water I fall too easy, and I poured the whiskey (ok) But no be disability o, no be disability o I fall too easy, and I poured the whiskey But no be disability o, no be disability o People wey dey pray for the rain, but e no fall Rain dey fall for another man place, and e no stop E be like swimming pool for him house as e don flood All the things wey him get for hin house many don lost And my farm wey dey Shekpame As me and you dey talk so e, they don kpoose The ones wey remain self no reach anything We dey talk about three-hundred fowl for door Abeg make Government come Make they come, make dem try Three-hundred fowl, una know how many cartoons now? Abeg my everything, my clothe, my property I no know wetin I wan even recue from there now As me and you dey talk now, I leave some for there You see my body? Na water I dey come from I even dey like we dey swimming pool now But swimming pool dey learn for the where me dey bros This one now, e no dey come down, whereas

I stood on faith and the corner of ambition I came here to sink or swim And to show them all that they were wrong And though I never thought I'd make it this far So the curtains are down For the moment I'm someone There were those in the wings who waited, who came this way Now they're gone But there's always someone at home who never forgets who you are And when I'm down and I'm growing old I won't be along no railroad track I won't be bound to a life out in the cold It's been a steady pace to keep my steps between these cracks on Broadway And my stride in rhythm to the beat of home, sweet home When I'm down and I'm growing old I won't be along no railroad track I won't be bound to a life out in the cold It's been a steady pace to keep my steps between these cracks on Broadway And my stride in rhythm to the beat of home, sweet home Can't go on, I'm on the top of my better years I'm going home, it's too lonesome on the bottom rung here It's been a steady pace to keep my steps between these cracks on Broadway And my stride in rhythm to the beat of home, sweet home

Where have you been My long lost friend It's good to see you again Come and sit for a while I've missed your smile Today the past is goodbye Time can't erase A lover's embrace Can't you hear it calling A new day dawning You were longing to find Love's taken you far Away from my heart And I've been here all along Have your eyes failed to find What took you from mine A vision that's faded through time But you sail away Far on a summer's day But you heard it calling A new day dawning You were longing to find There is a way To make you stay Darling don't turn away Don't doubt your heart And keep us apart I'm right where you are Stay There is a way To make you stay Darling don't turn away Don't doubt your heart And keep us apart I'm right where you are Stay

Yesterday the odds were stacked in favor of my expectations Lying above the rest, never falling from the nest Tuesday came and went and now I'm in a little situation Maybe it's for the best, I can live alone I guess Maybe I can stand alone Maybe I'm strong as stone Even though the bird has flown Maybe he'll fly on home Forgive me if I'm keeping you apart from better conversation I'm numb from all my doubt, trying to sort the whole thing out Tell me that I'm smart enough to deal with all the information Spinning inside my head, every word he ever said Maybe I can stand alone Maybe I'm strong as stone Even though the bird has flown Maybe he'll fly on home (Repeat chorus)

We lease 20 acres And one Ginny mule From the Alabama Trust For half of the cotton and a third of the corn Get a hand full of dust We cannot have all things to please us No matter how we try Until we've all gone to Jesus We can only wonder why I had a daughter Called her Annabelle She's the apple of my eye Tried to give her something like I never had Didn't want to ever hear her cry We cannot have all things to please us No matter how we try Until we've all gone to Jesus We can only wonder why When I'm dead and buried I'll take a hard life of tears From every day I've ever known Anna's in the churchyard She got no life at all She only got these words on a stone We cannot have all things to please us No matter how we try Until we've all gone to Jesus We can only wonder why

Baby mine, don't you cry Baby mine, dry your eyes Rest your head close to my heart Never to part, baby of mine Little one, when you play Don't you mind what they say Let those eyes sparkle and shine Never a tear, baby of mine If they knew sweet little you They'd end up loving you too All those same people who scold you What they'd give just for the right to hold you From your head down to your toes You're not much, goodness knows But you're so precious to me Sweet as can be, baby of mine All of those people who scold you What they'd give just for the right to hold you From your head down to your toes You're not much, goodness knows But you're so precious to me Sweet as can be, baby of mine Baby of mine